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(No Modell) W. W. BA'I'CHELDIER.

Giga.;` Lighter.

Patehted May 24, 188|.

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UNITED A STATES WILLIAM W. BATGHELDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGAR-LIGHTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,781, dated May 24, 1881.

Application iiled March 8, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it mayoncern Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. BATcHEL- DER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved OigarLighter5 and I do hereby declare that the followingis afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specitica-tion, in which- Figure 1 is a side view; Fig. 2,' a longitudinal section 5 Fig. 3, a transverse section through the linea-w. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the tube for feeding the brous cord.

My invention relates to an improved cigarlighter designed to be carried in the pocket and adapted to light a cigar in the open air or anywhere else without regard to the wind.

I have heretofore patented a cigar-lighter in which the lighting of a fibrous cord or slow match was effected by the union of two kinds of composition placed in sticks side by side, which would not explode or burn when separated in bulk, but when scraped together and mixed to form a pulverulent charge would explode by friction. I refer particularly to my Patent No. 204,284.

My present invention is an improvement upon this device 5 and it consists in a simpliedstructure, in which the two igniting compositions are embodied in longitudinal sections in one stick to form a single continuous match, as more fully described in another application which I have made for the same. In connection with this I provide special carrying and working devices for operating the ignitingmatch and the fibrous slow match, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

Before entering upon a description of the peculiarities of this device I would state that I employ herein the same continuous match which I have led an application for of even date herewith, and in which the dierent compositions are molded or formed together in one stick or pencil. I also follow the same general movement for scraping up and mixing the several ingredients of the match which is 3described in a second pending application ot" even date, entitled a gas -lighting device, and which I will refer to again hereinafter.

In the drawings, Arepresents atube, in which is screwed by a short thread, t, another tube,

B, carrying a fibrous slow match, G. This tube B has rigidly attached to its inner periph ery a spiral wire, a, soldered to the tube, and through the center ot' which spiral the fibrous cord is fed by being turned on its center, the spiral serving the purpose of a feeding-screw to feed the cord up as it is burned away and withdrawit whenitis to be extinguished. The end of tube A has a swivel-connection with another tube, D, which latter forms a chamber that contains the continuous lighting-match E. The end of tube A next to the match E is also cut away on both sides, as shown in Fig. l, so that the end of the slow match in tube B may have a sufficient access of air to burn, the tube B havin g, by reason of its screw-thread, however, a range of movement past the cutaway parts, so as to be closed against the part c to completely smother the fire on the slow match when it is to be put out after being used.

lVithin the part c of tube A is arranged the drill-point d, which latter is arranged diametrically across the tube, and is formed (as described in my pending Iapplication for a gaslighting device) with its edges tapered to a point toward the igniting-match E, and its point in line with the longitudinal center of said match, and formed with reverse bevelson opposite sides of said center, so that when the match E is turned about its axis in one direction the drill-point d cuts up and mixes the materials of the continuous match, and when turned in the opposite direction rubs and ig nites the mixed pulverulent charge. This general movement for scrapiu g, mixing, and igniting the charge is the same as that which is covered in my said application for a gas-lighting device.

For carrying the match E and feeding it np against the cutting-edge tbe tube Dis slotted lengthwise and a ring, f, placed around the tube and connected through this slot with a friction-cup, e, that contains'one end of the match, which ring f is prevented from slipping off at the end by a cap-piece, g.

Now, for operating the cigar-lighter asv thus described, the tube D is turned through its swivel-connectionv over the tube A and the match E forced at same time upwardly against the cutting-point by the pressure ofthe iin gers on ring f. Fora movement ofthe match in one direction over the drill-point the materials of the match are scraped up and mixed, While the reverse movement rubs and ignites the charge.

With respect to that part of my invention for feeding the fibrous match up in tube B, I would state that I have shown and described in a prior patent, No. 222,649, a spiral Wire loose in a tube, and attached to a cappiece which Was swiveled, and when turned axially turned the spiral Wire and fed the brous match through. This I find does not Work, and my improvement of that feature consists in rigidly fastening the spiral to or formingiton the interior of the tube and then causing the fibrousy cord to be fed through the same by a turn of the fibrous cord itself. This is a great deal cheaper and simpler, isnotliable to getjammed or out of order, and Works perfectly.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new isl. A cigar-lighter composed ot' a tube for holding the fibrous cord, another tube arranged in line with the same and containing the continuous match, and means i'or cutting and exploding thecharge from the continuous match, substantially as described.

2. In a cigar-lighter, the combination of a fibrous cord and a feeding-tube having a spiral Wire rigidly xed in said tube for feeding the cord through by turning the latter, as described.

3. The tubesA and D, swiveled together and provided with a cutting-edge between them for the continuous match, combined With a tube carrying the iibrous cord and entered into tube A, and a holder for the continuous match contained in tube D, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. The tube A, having its end cut away, as shown, combined with the lighting device, as described, and a tube carrying the fibrous cord, which lattertube has a range of adjustment past the cut-away portions of tube A, as described.

5. The combination ofslotted tube D, the cup e, and rin g f, carryingtlle match E, and the tube A, having a swivel-connection with D andcarrying the cutting devices, as described.

W. W. BATGHELDER. 

